{"id":77696,"date":"2022-04-10T23:05:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T21:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/riet-and-jan-van-wijk-brings-first-rescued-safely-to-shore\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:45:09","slug":"riet-and-jan-van-wijk-brings-first-rescued-safely-to-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/riet-and-jan-van-wijk-brings-first-rescued-safely-to-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Riet and Jan van Wijk brings first rescued safely to shore !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<strong>Lifeboat <em>Riet and Jan van Wijk<\/em> brings first rescued safely to shore !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday afternoon, April 2, off the coast of Bergen aan Zee, a kitesurfer ran into trouble, clinging to his only flotation device (the kite sail) and deciding to let his board go.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate kiter is spotted by the crew of the <em>Reed and Jan van Wijk<\/em> and taken aboard. Once on board, a few searches are made in search of the kiteboard; it is recovered not much later. At this, the lifeboat set course for the beach where it was met by the shore crew.<\/p>\n<p>Once on the beach, the crew was thanked and the young man returned home safely. The lifeboat once again chose the deep blue sea and set course for Egmond. Around 5:30 p.m., the lifeboat was back in the boathouse and the rescuers looked back on a successful rescue.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Riet and Jan van Wijk<\/em> is the first lifeboat from the <em>van Wijk class<\/em> and will be passing various stations for extensive testing over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>As for Egmond station, the <em>Reed and Jan van Wijk<\/em> has passed its first test well &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. saving people !<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery _builder_version=&#8221;4.16.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; gallery_ids=&#8221;34057,34058,34059,34060,34061&#8243; gallery_orderby=&#8221;rand&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; auto=&#8221;on&#8221; auto_speed=&#8221;4000&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifeboat Riet and Jan van Wijk brings first rescued safely to shore ! Saturday afternoon, April 2, off the coast of Bergen aan Zee, a kitesurfer ran into trouble, clinging to his only flotation device (the kite sail) and deciding to let his board go. The unfortunate kiter is spotted by the crew of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1544,3057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-egmond","category-police-messages","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egmondonline.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}